CTIA’s Annual Wireless Industry Survey

Americans used 9.6 trillion megabytes (MB) of data in 2015, three times the 3.2 trillion MB in 2013. This is the equivalent of consumers streaming 59,219 videos every minute or roughly 18 million MB. Smartphones are the number one wireless device in the US and still growing:

• There were more than 228 million smartphones, which was up almost 10 percent from 2014. 70 percent of the population now owns a smartphone.
• There were more than 41 million tablets on wireless networks, up 16 percent from 2014.
• Smartphones are the number one wireless device in the U.S. and still growing
• Americans talked more than 2.8 trillion minutes on their mobile phones, up more than 17 percent from 2014.
• Americans exchanged more than 2.1 trillion texts, videos and photo messages, or more than four million every minute.

To handle the increase in devices and usage, America’s wireless carriers invested almost $32 billion in 2015, including adding almost 10,000 new cell sites. Since 2010, carriers have invested more than $177 billion to improve their coverage and capacity to better serve all Americans.